The weekend chances for precipitation produced underwhelming amounts as totals were generally very light and even barely enough to keep up with climatology for what should be about the wettest time of the year. The featured map presents a smoothed analysis of IEM estimated precipitation departures over the past 31 days. The departures are expressed as a percentage of average with a value of 100% representing receiving a precipitation total equal to climatology. As with other recent IEM daily features, this map nicely highlights the driest portions of the state being southwest and southeastern Iowa. The bad news is that rain chances this week look non-existent until the weekend and temperatures will be much hotter, which will increase moisture stress.

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